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He purchased a 5% stake from Bain in 2020 after the company emerged from administration so he still has skin in this game albeit a smaller one.

There are many research and investigations from runway incursion incidents that have led to where we are today. I can't even count how many ACI episodes I've watched that involved runway incursions. But there's always the human factor that needs to be taken into consideration with these kind of...

JL88/NH924 from CAN and NH962 from PEK diverted to KIX. JL22 from PEK returned to PEK while near the Chinese coastline. MU575 from PVG was still on the ground taxiing and returned to the gate and then cancelled. Interestingly CZ3085 from CAN was near Kyushu in Japan airspace and turned around to...

Rather optimistic I’d say. I’d be surprised if HND reopens for tonight.

Seems deliberate that VA/QF would turn a blind eye to people’s carry on exceeding the limit though. I can’t imagine business traveler would be too happy with a strict enforcement like JQ. You can include 100 pieces of free checked baggage but if I have a meeting to go to I can’t afford to waste...

One thing Jetstart does is that it aggressively enforces carry on baggage limit with expensive gate fees to deter people from bringing too much onboard Having said that though I don't think the impact is that large. I regularly fly both JQ and VA on domestic routes and I find that when both...

I do but I'm Melbourne based and at this point it's already too late/difficult to replan everything and bring the car to Sydney for that week. I ended up doing this. A flex JQ ticket into AVV Friday morning that I'll cancel the moment I land in Melbourne. With the added benefit that it's...

Well the Mrs is a massive swifty and I’ve been instructed to make this “100% bullet proof” so all cards are on the table. 😂😂

I’ll be flying VA from Sydney to Melbourne on the Thursday for the Taylor Swift concert and I’m a bit worried about getting cancelled for whatever reason and finding a replacement flight as I expect all flights will be very full the days prior to the concert. 1. Am I correct in thinking that...

I think largely the network works perfectly well with just narrow bodies. But I think there’s still place for a small fleet of small WB (5x 787-8/9 would be perfect I think). VA would have no problem filling these 787s on domestic trunk routes (QF regularly runs A330s domestically as well)...

As of right now VH-8IB is still stuck at HND. Probably scheduled to operate tonight’s VA78 back to CNS.

Too many eggs in one basket maybe? In the SYD-HND route you have 1x JL 2x QF 2x NH. Given the strong marketing power of QF in Australia and the market is made up of mostly Australian originating travelers you’d think it would be silly to compete head to head with the QF/JL alliance. NH flying...

Not if it’s market force driving it to that equilibrium. It would be cartel behaviour if VA and QF secretly agree they would pay X amount.

The same would work if you are a UA MileagePlus member with MP miles. IIRC usually these kind of upgrades award are restricted to the airlines own FFP or require full fares B/Y class be eligible (for example star alliance upgrade award). I don’t think Qantas lets you redeem points to upgrade AA...

Was the 8x MAX 8 added back to the order book solely for the HND route until Bain floats the company and the new owner reconsiders whether there’s place for wide body in the fleet? The MAX 10 order still make sense on the domestic network but seems like it would make more financial sense to...

I think that’s a fine model. I couldn’t care less about having a “premium” experience on a short domestic flight. I do care about basic amenity like a water/tea/coffee/carbonated beverage and maybe occasionally a snack so I think the current VAd offerings are pretty close to what I would expect...

I think the rollout is either buggy or still ongoing. On the website the front rows are correctly marked as pink and lets you choose them for an extera charge but on the mobile app they were just all greayed out. However surprisingly, I was able to select a 6A seat last week for free despite...

what I've found for the SG codeshare is that inventory seems a bit sporadic. on some date VA would just return no availability. the UA codeshare to US destination doesn't seem to suffer from the same problem

Ok thanks for sharing that. I was going to call in to move my 2x J redemption on SG by a few days but now I'm not going to touch that reservation with a 10-foot pole, especially I don't have enough points in my account to cover another 2 J rewards to the same destination.

I’m not sure if membership in an alliance would lead to ACCC scrutiny. FWIW only joint venture partnerships where two airlines would coordinate schedule, fares, marketing and potentially profit share would constitute cartel behavior thus requiring ACCC authorization. so theoretically VA can...